Booze, the Bible, and Bad Theology

As I promised in last night’s mes­sage Booze, The Bible, & Bad The­ol­o­gy, here are some resources out­lin­ing what the Bible says about fer­ment­ed bev­er­ages.

* First, a list of every pas­sage in the Bible that dis­cuss­es alco­hol.
* Daniel Whit­field has a good essay Alco­hol and the Bible–well worth read­ing.
* Daniel Wal­lace wrote The Bible and Alco­hol, an extreme­ly help­ful arti­cle from a very sol­id schol­ar.
* The Chris­t­ian Coun­ter­cul­ture project has an insight­ful col­lec­tion of arti­cles in their What Would Jesus Drink? col­lec­tion.

There is diver­si­ty with­in the Chris­t­ian camp on this issue, and a sim­ple google search will find argu­ments from all cor­ners. The ones I list­ed above are the ones I find most cred­i­ble.

UPDATE: I just ran across a fas­ci­nat­ing arti­cle at Chris­tian­i­ty Today that gives a sol­id his­tor­i­cal overview — Amassed Media: The Drink Debate.